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Boots delivery in Edinburgh
Does the Boots on Portobello High Street deliver?
Need it sooner than tomorrow, or straight off the shelf at Portobello High Street? Someone local can collect it.
Need it sooner? Someone in Edinburgh can fetch it
Boots will send an order to Newcraighall from its warehouse; standard delivery is £3.95, or nothing over £25. It comes from the warehouse, not from the shelves at Portobello High Street.
- Where it is
- 174, Portobello High StreetEH15 1EX
- People within 1 mile
- 23,000
- People within 3 miles
- 180,000
- Neighbourhoods within 3 miles
- 5
- Other Boots stores within 5 miles
- 22
Near the Boots on Portobello High Street
Count three miles out from Portobello High Street and you take in about 180,000 people. The larger places in range on the map below are Leith and Newington. Cleikimin begins about 1.5 miles away, south of the door. You have 22 other Boots stores to fall back on near Newcraighall.
Boots delivery in Edinburgh: what works
Three ways, depending on how soon you need it in Cleikimin and whether it has to come from Portobello High Street.
Someone local
A neighbour in Cleikimin could do this on their way past Portobello High Street. Send a photo or the product name from the Boots website, so whoever goes to Portobello High Street picks the right one. Say on the job when it is needed by; people around Newcraighall can offer, and you choose. Post the job on Taskerama for someone near Cleikimin.
Order online for delivery
Next day delivery is £5.95 if you order by 10pm, seven days a week, and usually arrives between 8am and 9pm. Boots says its aim is for standard orders to arrive within 5 days. Boots also lists Deliveroo, Just Eat and Uber Eats, and says on-demand delivery runs from over 500 of its stores; search for Boots in the app to see if Portobello High Street is one. Boots’s own delivery page.
Pick it up at the store
You can order online and pick up at Portobello High Street, if it offers it: free over £15, £1.50 below. Boots sends a text and an email when it is ready to collect. Handy if you are passing Portobello High Street anyway.
Areas near the Boots on Portobello High Street
The areas ringing Portobello High Street are listed here with distances from the front of the shop. Anything inside the shading is within three miles of Portobello High Street. That puts 5 areas well within range and leaves 2 further out.
- InvereskFurther out3.1 miles south east · about 25,000 people
- NewcraighallWithin 3 miles1.5 miles south east
- CleikiminWithin 3 miles1.5 miles south
- NiddrieWithin 3 miles1.5 miles south
- NewingtonWithin 3 miles2.7 miles south west · about 11,000 people
- EdinburghFurther out3.2 miles west · about 510,000 people
- LeithWithin 3 miles2.6 miles north west · about 50,000 people
Our mark out of ten
This mark is about the ground around Portobello High Street, not the shop itself. The more people living near Cleikimin, the more people there are who could fetch your shopping. This is how the marks work.
- People within 3 miles180,000
- Neighbourhoods in range5
- People per square mile6,288
- Nearest neighbourhood0.9 miles
- People within 5 miles390,000
- Directions covered4 of 8
- Biggest area nearbyLeith
- Other Boots stores within 5 miles22
- Areas within a mile2
- To the town centre2.6 miles
The nearest other Boots stores to Edinburgh
Further out in Inveresk and Edinburgh, a helper may need more notice. Boots says an online repeat prescription can be collected from store or delivered to your home; ask the pharmacy at Portobello High Street about anything else.